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With a reported 66 percent of NFL players being Black, it was shocking that the NFL’s specially created advisory board to address domestic violence within…
DALLAS (AP) — A dated yearbook picture of a smiling young woman has become the latest face of Ebola. The high school picture of Amber Joy Vinson spread across the country after the 29-year-old nurse was confirmed with the virus Wednesday. But beyond the image of her with a wide grin, tipped head and shiny […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 100 black candidates will be on the ballot in statewide and congressional races next month, a post-Reconstruction record that some observers say is a byproduct of President Barack Obama’s historic presidency. At least 83 black Republicans and Democrats are running for the U.S. House, an all-time high for the modern […]
In the midst of the fight for justice for Michael Brown, John Crawford, Eric Garner and others, young activists are calling for older more established…
Jody Westby had to come to the aid of an older Black man, Dennis Stucky who had been stopped by police in her posh neighborhood, Foxhall…
The rest of the world may have forgotten about the girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria, but Alicia Keys has not and she’s doing…
One Republican congresswoman wants to keep anyone that’s been to West Africa out of our country. Rep. Cynthia Lummis said during a recent debate that…
NEW YORK (AP) — They were 16 when they confessed to kidnapping and killing a stranger and taking a joyride in his car. They quickly recanted but were convicted of murder. Now, almost 30 years later, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson plans to ask a judge Wednesday to throw out the convictions of David McCallum […]
A rainy night in Maryland turns into a scene of tragedy as one car rear-ends another. Two sisters, Typhani Wilkerson, 35, and Tameika Curtis, 32, were killed, along with two children 1-year-old Hassein Boyd and 13-year-old Khadiua Ba. Reports the NY Daily News: On a rainy night in Oxon Hill, a Mercedes crashed into the […]
MAYS LANDING, N.J. (AP) — A convicted murderer who police say killed his mother two days after being released from prison told a judge that he’s guilty and doesn’t want a trial. Steven Pratt, 45, told a judge through tears on Tuesday that he doesn’t have a lawyer, before he was taken back to jail […]
DALLAS (AP) — A second health care worker at a Dallas hospital who provided care for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has tested positive for the disease, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday. The department said in the statement emailed early Wednesday and posted on its website that the […]
Johnneisha Kemper was a teenage mother six years ago. After a dispute with her birth mother that left her newborn daughter locked inside her mother’s home, Kemper called police. Instead of helping her and despite the lack of imminent danger to the child, a requirement in protective custody cases, her child was taken. Six years […]
